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THE Nigerian Army has named new General Officers Commanding (GOCs) for the 1st division, Kaduna; 3rd division, Jos and 82 division, Enugu in a major redeployment involving 29 generals.

In the redeployment made public on Wednesday, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division, Major General Joseph Shoboiki, moved to defence headquarters as Director of Policy (D Pol) while former Director, Training at the Army Headquarters, Major General Garba Ayodele Wahab, becomes the GOC 1 Division.

The statement announcing the redeployments said, "Major General J.O. Nwaogbo is also the new GOC for 3 Division, while Major General Sunday O. Idoko is leaving the 82 Division to become the Chief of Logistics (COLOG) at the Army Headquarters. Major General O.O. Oshinowo of the Special Task Force (STF) Jos is now GOC 82 Division.


"The Commander, Nigerian Army Corps of Artillery (NACA), Major General Emmanuel Etim Bassey has been appointed as the Chief of Administration at Army Headquarters. Major General M.B. Ibrahim, formerly of Defence Headquarters now commands the Special Task Force (STF) Jos.


"In the same vein, Major General A.T. Jibrin and Major General U. Buzugbe have been confirmed as Director of Military Intelligence (DMI) and Military Secretary (Army) respectively. The Director of Army Public Relations, Major General Raphael Ishaku Isa, is now the Provost Marshal of the Nigerian Army while the new Commander of the Nigerian Army Peace Keeping Centre (NAPKC) Jaji, is Major General J.S. Zaruwa. Major General A.S. Agha-Okoro, who until now was at the Department of Army Training and Operations (DATOPS) at the Army Headquarters is now the Director, Legal Services (DLS).


"Other new appointments include the Commander, 3 Brigade, Brigadier-General I.I. Abbah; Commander, 31 Brigade, Brigadier-General Ilouga; Commander, 21 Brigade, Brigadier-General R.O. Bamigboye. Brigadier-General C.O. Okoro, is now Sector Commander/Nigerian Contingent Commander of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) while Brigadier-General M.A. Koleoso has been appointed the Sector Commander/Nigerian Contingent Commander for the United Nations Mission in Dafur (UNAMID).


"Twenty-nine Major Generals and 43 Brigadier Generals are affected in the redeployment", the statement concluded.

http://odili.net/news/source/2012/feb/16/613.html

You guys might want to see this ; https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-871322.0.html

omanzo02:
And his debut track would be "I dey laugh oooo"?

LWKMD!!!!!

Boko Haram's ambition of creating a climate of fear, terror and panic ahead of their plan to re-invent Nigeria, seem close to reality. A visitor to some of the major cities in northern Nigeria - Kano, Bauchi, Maiduguri, Kaduna etc - will be forgiven to conclude that Nigeria is at war. Indeed, every passing day brings heart rending stories of cruel killings from Boko Haram's bombs and explosions with panic stricken citizens running from pillar to post. And with police and military check-points conducting widespread stop and search everywhere, the scenario of a nation at war is hardly disputable.

There are many, many issues that the Boko Haram insurgency has thrown up which cannot be easily addressed; some have no solutions at all. For example, Boko Haram say their prime goal is to impose Shari'a Law throughout Northern Nigeria. In other words, they are seeking to dismantle this country as we know it and to create another in which they alone will rule. But we have also been told that they want to eradicate decadence, corruption and injustice in our body politic. And so on.

Yet, whatever it is that Boko Haram want to achieve or create, one thing they seem to be doing rather well now is setting the various groups in Nigeria one against the other. One day, Boko Haram say they are killing christians because Christians are killing Muslims; another day, they say they will drive southerners out of the North because southerners are sending Northerners out of the South; yet another day, Boko Haram would say they are fighting the government because government leaders and agents are corrupt and unjust, etc. After that, they will stand aside and watch with glee as the different groups engage each other in mutual blame and recrimination.

Despite all this, what is clear and what we all see is that Boko Haram remains on the offensive and their bombs do not discriminate between friends and foe; notwithstanding their propaganda. And in the face of the generalized climate of fear, apprehensions and mistrust, people respond in ways that are neither calm nor measured, precisely the type of reaction that pleases Boko Haram. This has to change. People of goodwill everywhere must beware of the nature of the problems we are facing and should say or do nothing that will help the aggressor.


Religious leaders, leaders of ethnic or regional groups and politicians at all levels should step back and ponder the role they wittingly or unwittingly have played in the successes Boko Haram has recorded in it's bloody campaign to destabilize Nigeria. One particularly unhelpful reaction came from certain Igbo leaders who advised their kinsmen in the wake of the onslaught by Boko Haram to move out of Northern Nigeria and to return to their ancestral homes in the east. Clearly, such advise, apart from playing into the hands of the insurgents, is a wanton infringement of the civic and legal rights of the people. An Igbo, Urhobo, Efamai, Ekwere etc. living in Damaturu, Minna, Zonkwa or Yola are bonafide citizens of these cities as are Kanuri, Tiv, Nupe or Hausafulani living in Port Harcourt, Umuahia, Onitsha or Shagamu. This is a right our Constitution has prescribed; a right no one, not even temporary difficulties, should take away. Besides, certain situations make such ideas utterly anachronistic if not entirely illogical. Over 200 people were reportedly killed and over a thousand others injured with many more displaced when two long feuding communities in Ezillo council area of Ebonyi state clashed towards the end of last year. Where were the survivors advised to re-locate to? No where else.

Truth is, Nigeria is currently in the grip of unprecedented crisis of insecurity - Boko Haram, kidnappings, armed robberies, militancy, communal conflicts etc - and there is no shortage of purveyors of doomsday reports, feeding a vicious cycle of suspicions, conspiracies and more insecurity. As the authorities grapple with ways to address these challenges, Nigerians must remain unflinching in their support and cooperation so that together we will keep these troubles on the front banner until they are addressed.

Now, whether we need to address our national problems through a sovereign national conference as some are suggesting or through the constitutional instrument of the legislature must take account of certain facts of contemporary history. Despite the imperfections of a federal set up, it provides a security umbrella to all it's federating units. People are quick to cite the success stories of countries that were created as a result of division - Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Sudan, etc. Often, they would rather not discuss the greater success stories of countries that preserved their unity, including Indonesia, Canada, Germany, nor the problems with which the splinter republics grapple with. This is true not only of Pakistan or South Sudan but even more ominously so with the former Soviet Republics.

Unarguably, Nigeria is grappling with an unwieldy administrative structure, a problem brought about in part by agitations for self determination that led to the creation of many unviable states and local governments. It is our duty and responsibility to nurture our country and steer it out of any temporary difficulties until it attains the perfection we admire in others. Any one preaching or advocating anything to the contrary should know of the implications not to talk of the grave consequences on the lives of so many people across the country.

We will say this openly and frankly and without fear of contradiction that given the spread and depth of our integration as a people, it is futile to expect Igbos, Hausa, Yoruba or any ethnic group to relocate easily or peacefully to their ancestral lands even if Nigeria were broken up. It is not time alone; many things in nature are not reversible. And we should never forget, it is decisions taken in moments such as this that shape our destiny.

Just went through a girls Blackberry phone & saw this on her Calendar for Valentine's Day;

7-8am=Breakfast with James at Casablanca.

8-10am=Visit my Big Daddy @ the Office, Give him bl*wj*b.

10am-11am=Visit Mugu 5 @ his house, Do a quickie for the val gown he bought for me.

11-2pm=Go to swim @ Bonga villa Hotel with Emeka, Stingy ibo man.

2pm-4pm=go cook val dish for my real love , says he will propose today.

4pm-5pm=Visit my Choco lesbian and do stuff.

5pm=Leave choco @Ada George to G.R.A and spend the nite with my Big Big Daddy who promised me my house rent.

GUYS
Pls wht's ur own valentine time table?

Hello Good guys of Nairaland,

Please i need your advise.

IPad 2 Or Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Which of these device has the edge?

Please state your reasons.

shymmex:
@Aringarosa and @manny4life

Thanks, I was just too aggressive - I guess it's because I see the same pattern on the threads

I'll stop posting on this forum, ignore comments by the resident tribalists, and stick to reading only the history and culture sections

Thanks guys!!

You are welcome bro.

@Shymmex, I can see your grievances, but just as manny4life has said, it doesn't get into your skin. Does it?

My advise is, don't participate in bigotry yourself, since you see everyone as Nigerian you should seek to advise other to desist from it. It doesn't do anyone any good.

Btw, i 'm Yoruba myself.

shymmex:
Listen, I'm not a bigot

If you grew up in foreign land where I was raised - you would know we never cared about tribe, we just see ourselves as Nigerians

Though, the part of London is predominantly people from Yoruba tribe - most of my friends are guys of Ibos and Benin ancestry

We don't see tribe out here, we just see Nigerians

The Ibo people on this forum just pisses me off, everything with them has to do with yoruba cowardice

Phuck the Biafra war, I'm Yoruba and I'm not a coward, and neither is anyone in family

I came on this forum to read about Nigerian history, culture, and check out what's going on in Nigeria in real-time - but every time I come on here, it's always Ibo clowns hijacking the thread to call Yoruba cowards and other obscene names

Just as I can't let no WHITE MAN call me a MONKEY or NYGGAH - I won't let any IBO GUY call me a coward

Answer

manny4life:
^^^

So why participate in bigotry when you know it's wrong? If someone call you a coward, for crying out loud, why should that get under your skin? . If you sincerely see people as Nigerians rather than tribal, again, my advice for you is to steer clear away from bigotry statement whether made against your tribe.

To be honest, you listed Chino, Ezeuche (who barely comes on), and Phreak, keep in mind that these guys will only attack back when they feel insulted. Why would you condone the act of attributing a terrorist to the igbo tribe? Anyway, if you know what's good for you, to be honest, it ain't all that. Yall need to chill and call Bluetooth, and his cohorts to order.

shymmex:
"Idiocy" in a faceless forum - with no identity, huh??

You're just one of them gorillas

Phuck you too

You bigotry is sleeping out.

You should be more careful.

Maybe taking your head out of your A.n.al orifice would help.

shymmex:
Of what importance is that??

You can't call me a coward and expect me not to either blast or knock half of your face off - regardless of my age

Age is not a factor here, my upbringing told me NEVER to back down from NO MAN, especially Ibo clowns

Stop exposing your idiocy on a public forum.

@Shymmex, how old are you?

White007:
Yes, they expect us to respect them. The wealthy white men file bankrupt but still live high on the hog. Everybody else files bankrupt and they have to wait 7 years to get their credit and life back. Boy, wealthy white men truly have it made!


The only thing most black men have more than wealthy white men is sex appeal.

Yeah a man that can't get a job, and who's biggest ambition is life is to be a love-vendor or Drug Kingpin is oh so sexy, . sounds like a bunch of "hatin'" on succesful, intelligent whites. . . yes most exectivies are white, and yes some have to file for protections or go out of business, corps to fail. . . .welcome to CAPITALISM

White007:
That's another reason why it's good to be white/male/wealthy. They can head a company, make NOTHING of the company, get a severence package from the company worth millions and essentially get room and board "for no work" by purchasing a beachfront property with the loot. It's good being white/male/wealthy.

maybe the do a #$%$poor job, but you cant say they didnt work, the studied, went to college, and worked their way up the ranks of the company, being a poor manager doesnt mean your lazy

^^^
you know. . . . atleast the slave worked for their room and board back then. . . . now the black just want room and board for no work. . . .

White007:
Wealthy white men in the U.S. have it made! They dodge being called beneficiaries of Affirmative Action although 99.9% of our presidents were white/male/wealthy. They avoid being called welfare recipients although they get bailouts and severence packages to die for. They can run for president with their ex-mistress by their side with no static while a classy wife and mother in the White House is coined an "Angry Black Woman". It must be good being white, male, and wealthy.

It's great! Of course, it did not happen by accident. Lots of hard work involved. . . .

FLASH: Boko Haram death threat: SSS advises Wole Soyinka to shave beards.

I did told friends that Ribadu presidencial stuff was then part of pdp plan to prevent the coalition of cpc and acn, now it is manifesting.

Alhaji Abdulkadir Dantata, Chairman Of Dantata And Sawoe Is Dead. Details Later

^^^ Are you for real ? Just kidding!

^^^ Really, this is becoming something else. The FG has to do something and fast at that.

B*R*E*A*K*I*N*G News!
3 Locations Hit by Hoko Haram in Kaduna!
An army base, Air force base and under a flyover in Kawo were hit by suicide bomber this afternoon.
Three people were confirmed dead in the under flyover attack, in Kawo, the casualty figure from both the Army and the Air force base is yet unknown.

Mumu Op, stop the stereotype. How old are you again? You troglodyte wants to marry an mbaise lady. Yeye de smell, mtcheeee!

Hey guys, what do think of this future map?

Hmmm, The beginning of the End of one Nigeria.

The labels used to describe Americans of African descent mark the movement of a people from the slave house to the White House. Today, many are resisting this progression by holding on to a name from the past: "black."

For this group — some descended from U.S. slaves, some immigrants with a separate history — "African-American" is not the sign of progress hailed when the term was popularized in the late 1980s. Instead, it's a misleading connection to a distant culture.
The debate has waxed and waned since African-American went mainstream, and gained new significance after the son of a black Kenyan and a white American moved into the White House. President Barack Obama's identity has been contested from all sides, renewing questions that have followed millions of darker Americans:

What are you? Where are you from? And how do you fit into this country?
"I prefer to be called black," said Shawn Smith, an accountant from Houston. "How I really feel is, I'm American."
"I don't like African-American. It denotes something else to me than who I am," said Smith, whose parents are from Mississippi and North Carolina. "I can't recall any of them telling me anything about Africa. They told me a whole lot about where they grew up in Macomb County and Shelby, N.C."
Gibré George, an entrepreneur from Miami, started a Facebook page called "Don't Call Me African-American" on a whim. It now has about 300 "likes."
"We respect our African heritage, but that term is not really us," George said. "We're several generations down the line. If anyone were to ship us back to Africa, we'd be like fish out of water."

"It just doesn't sit well with a younger generation of black people," continued George, who is 38. "Africa was a long time ago. Are we always going to be tethered to Africa? Spiritually I'm American. When the war starts, I'm fighting for America."

Joan Morgan, a writer born in Jamaica who moved to New York City as a girl, remembers the first time she publicly corrected someone about the term: at a book signing, when she was introduced as African-American and her family members in the front rows were appalled and hurt.
"That act of calling me African-American completely erased their history and the sacrifice and contributions it took to make me an author," said Morgan, a longtime U.S. citizen who calls herself Black-Caribbean American. (Some insist Black should be capitalized.)

She said people struggle with the fact that black people have multiple ethnicities because it challenges America's original black-white classifications. In her view, forcing everyone into a name meant for descendants of American slaves distorts the nature of the contributions of immigrants like her black countrymen Marcus Garvey and Claude McKay.

Morgan acknowledges that her homeland of Jamaica is populated by the descendants of African slaves. "But I am not African, and Africans are not African-American," she said.

In Latin, a forerunner of the English language, the color black is "niger." In 1619, the first African captives in America were described as "negars," which became the epithet still used by some today.
The Spanish word "negro" means black. That was the label applied by white Americans for centuries.

The word black also was given many pejorative connotations — a black mood, a blackened reputation, a black heart. "Colored" seemed better, until the civil rights movement insisted on Negro, with a capital N.
Then, in the 1960s, "black" came back — as an expression of pride, a strategy to defy oppression.

"Every time black had been mentioned since slavery, it was bad," says Mary Frances Berry, a University of Pennsylvania history professor and former chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Reclaiming the word "was a grass-roots move, and it was oppositional. It was like, 'In your face.'"
Afro-American was briefly in vogue in the 1970s, and lingers today in the names of some newspapers and university departments. But it was soon overshadowed by African-American, which first sprouted among the black intelligentsia.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson is widely credited with taking African-American mainstream in 1988, before his second presidential run.
Berry remembers being at a 1988 gathering of civil rights groups organized by Jackson in Chicago when Ramona Edelin, then president of the National Urban Coalition, urged those assembled to declare that black people should be called African-American.
Edelin says today that there was no intent to exclude people born in other countries, or to eliminate the use of black: "It was an attempt to start a cultural offensive, because we were clearly at that time always on the defensive."

"We said, this is kind of a compromise term," she continued. "There are those among us who don't want to be referred to as African. And there also those among us who don't want to be referred to as American. This was a way of bridging divisions among us or in our ideologies so we can move forward as a group."

Jackson, who at the time may have been the most-quoted black man in America, followed through with the plan.
"Every ethnic group in this country has a reference to some land base, some historical, cultural base," Jackson told reporters at the time. "African-Americans have hit that level of cultural maturity."

The effect was immediate. "Back in those days we didn't talk about things going viral, but that's what you would say today. It was quite remarkable," said the columnist Clarence Page, then a reporter. "It was kind of like when Black Power first came in the '60s, there was all kinds of buzz among black folks and white folks about whether or not I like this."
Page liked it — he still uses it interchangeably with black — and sees an advantage to changing names.
"If we couldn't control anything else, at least we could control what people call us," Page said. "That's the most fundamental right any human being has, over what other people call you. (African-American) had a lot of psychic value from that point of view."

It also has historical value, said Irv Randolph, managing editor of the Philadelphia Tribune, a black newspaper that uses both terms: "It's a historical fact that we are people of African descent."
"African-American embraces where we came from and where we are now," he said. "We are Americans, no doubt about that. But to deny where we came from doesn't make any sense to me."
Jackson agrees about such denial. "It shows a willful ignorance of our roots, our heritage and our lineage," he said Tuesday. "A fruit without a root is dying."
He observed that the history of how captives were brought here from Africa is unchangeable, and that Senegal is almost as close to New York as Los Angeles.

"If a chicken is born in the oven," Jackson said, "that doesn't make it a biscuit."
Today, 24 years after Jackson popularized African-American, it's unclear what term is preferred by the community. A series of Gallup polls from 1991 to 2007 showed no strong consensus for either black or African-American. In a January 2011 NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 42 percent of respondents said they preferred black, 35 percent said African-American, 13 percent said it doesn't make any difference, and 7 percent chose "some other term."
Meanwhile, a record number of black people in America — almost 1 in 10 — were born abroad, according to census figures.

[color=Black]Tomi Obaro is one of them. Her Nigerian-born parents brought her to America from England as a girl, and she became a citizen last year. Although she is literally African-American, the University of Chicago senior says the label implies she is descended from slaves. It also feels vague and liberal to her.
"It just sort of screams this political correctness," Obaro said. She and her black friends rarely use it to refer to themselves, only when they're speaking in "proper company."[/color]

"Or it's a word that people who aren't black use to describe black people," she said.
Or it's a political tool. In a Senate race against Obama in 2004, Alan Keyes implied that Obama could not claim to share Keyes' "African-American heritage" because Keyes' ancestors were slaves. During the Democratic presidential primary, some Hillary Clinton supporters made the same charge.

Last year, Herman Cain, then a Republican presidential candidate, sought to contrast his roots in the Jim Crow south with Obama's history, and he shunned the label African-American in favor of "American black conservative." Rush Limbaugh mocked Obama as a "halfrican-American."

Then there are some white Americans who were born in Africa.
Paulo Seriodo is a U.S. citizen born in Mozambique to parents from Portugal. In 2009 he filed a lawsuit against his medical school, which he said suspended him after a dispute with black classmates over whether Seriodo could call himself African-American.
"It doesn't matter if I'm from Africa, and they are not!" Seriodo wrote at the time. "They are not allowing me to be African-American!"
And so the saga of names continues.

"I think it's still evolving," said Edelin, the activist who helped popularize African-American. "I'm content, for now, with African and American."
"But," she added, "that's not to say that it won't change again."


Culled from Yahoo news.

Good news!